It wouldn't be Shrove Tuesday without the traditional running of the trans-Atlantic pancake race in Olney, Buckinghamshire. Every year on the date, women clad in aprons and head scarves from Olney and Liberal, Kan., race while flipping pancakes in a pan. According to legend, the Olney race started in 1445 when a harried housewife arrived at church on Shrove Tuesday still clutching her frying pan with a pancake in it. The Kansas town challenged Olney to an international competition in 1950 after seeing photos of the race in a magazine.

In Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Shrove Tuesday means the annual Royal Shrovetide Football match. The game pits one half of the Ashbourne populace against the other. There are only six rules, three of which are: 1) no transporting the ball in a motorized vehicle; 2) no concealing the ball in a bag, coat or rucksack; and 3) no killing your opponent. Apparently maiming is OK, although unnecessary violence is frowned upon.

In Tyler, Texas, Officer Rich Strother commandeers a sled belonging to resident Juan Hernandez and his family (not pictured). Strother and Officer Luis Aparicio made a stop at Woldert Park to spend a few minutes with Hernandez's family, who were enjoying a day off from work and school due to the new snow.

A skeptical Chihuahua investigates a mythical creature at Christie's auction house in London. The unicorn head is part of the collection of Les Trois Garcons, a celebrity restaurant in Shoreditch, which will be auctioned off in Knightsbridge (the collection, not the restaurant).

I'm all for taping the blessed event, dear, but it could be days before the egg cracks:

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surveillance camera points at a stork's nest in Auhagen, Germany.

I'm all for taping the blessed event, dear, but it could be days before the egg cracks:

A surveillance camera points at a stork's nest in Auhagen, Germany.

Photo: Julian Stratenschulte, AFP/Getty Images

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Hi, boys. Mind if we join you?

Masked Mah Meri tribesmen take a load off after performing in the Hari Moyang festival in Pulau Carey, Malaysia. On Hari Moyang, or Spirit's Day, Mah Meri elders honor the spirits of their ancestors in the tribe's villages along the western coast of Malaysia.

A pedestrian and her best friend hurry down the street in
downtown Scranton, Pa., as an arctic air mass settles over the area. The temperature
reached only into the teens.

Unfit for woman or beast:

A pedestrian and her best friend hurry down the street in downtown Scranton, Pa., as an arctic air mass settles over the area. The temperature reached only into the teens.

Photo: Butch Comegys, Associated Press

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Shake sampler:

Chevelle Compton, 15 months, tries a blueberry cheese shake with her mom, Kiley, at
Ivanhoes in Upland, Ind. Despite being somewhat silverware-challenged, Chevelle managed to
get some in her mouth and declared it delish.

Indian financier Subrata Roy wipes ink off his face after he was attacked outside Supreme
Court in New Delhi. A man claiming to be a lawyer from Gwalior was taken into custody after splashing ink on the
chairman of the Sahara Group, who was arriving for a court appearance. Roy previously failed to respond to Supreme Court summons
in connection with Sahara's alleged failure to pay $3.5 billion it owes millions of
investors.